Hi everyone! I am happy to announce that we now have a Facebook group
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikiLibrary> for better interaction
with users and coordinators. You can directly email
<WikiLibrary(a)groups.facebook.com> and the content of the mail will
appear as posts in the group. Please feel free to join and invite your
friends to join the group!
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Regards,
UY Scuti
Communications coordinator
*Apologies if you receive this as a cross-posting. I am re-sending this one
last time as there is an October 11 deadline for review, and the grant has
been updated a bit. **Thanks in advance.*
Hi Wikipedians,
I have written a *Wikimedia Grant Proposal: "Twitterpedian-in-Residence"* and
would be grateful for review, feedback, advice, and endorsement, if the
proposal seems positive.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/BrillLyle/
Twitterpedian-in-Residence
*Background*
In the last few months I have seen, been referred to, or tagged by friends
(who know about my Wikipedia obsession) on quite a few social media posts
written by people who are very unhappy with their Wikipedia entries. People
don't know how to fix their pages. And there doesn't appear to be an easy
answer or approach to talk with a human about the problem. Often, they try
to fix the problem themselves, which only exacerbates the problem. And they
hate their picture, etc. It goes on and on.
After the last few experiences where I have done significant amounts of
editing, it occurred to me that a more formalized answer might be a good
beta test solution to this problem.
I am a strong believer in the Wikipedian-in-Residence programs and GLAM
initiatives, so I envision this proposal within that type of framework.
Thanks so much in advance,
- Erika
*Erika Herzog*
Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>*
*Apologies if you receive this as a cross-posting.*
Hi Wikipedians,
I have written a *Wikimedia Grant Proposal: "Twitterpedian-in-Residence"* and
would be grateful for review, feedback, advice, and endorsement, if the
proposal seems positive.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/BrillLyle/Twitterpedian-in-R…
*Background*
In the last few months I have seen, been referred to, or tagged by friends
(who know about my Wikipedia obsession) on quite a few social media posts
written by people who are very unhappy with their Wikipedia entries. People
don't know how to fix their pages. And there doesn't appear to be an easy
answer or approach to talk with a human about the problem. Often, they try
to fix the problem themselves, which only exacerbates the problem. And they
hate their picture, etc. It goes on and on.
After the last few experiences where I have done significant amounts of
editing, it occurred to me that a more formalized answer might be a good
beta test solution to this problem.
I am a strong believer in the Wikipedian-in-Residence programs and GLAM
initiatives, so I envision this proposal within that type of framework.
Thanks so much in advance,
- Erika
*Erika Herzog*
Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>*
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Hello all,
For improved collaboration, general TWL chat, or quicker help to those
who are stuck or have questions regarding accounts, references,
anything regarding TWL, Samwalton9 and I have setup a new IRC channel
for Wikipedia library at #wikipedia-library in Freenode
<https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/#wikipedia-library>. IRC
being one of the high-traffic and preferred modes for communication in
various open source projects, we hope you like this idea.
Now the channel needs more coordinators to manage it and help users
with their questions. I'd like to invite all the coordinators to join
the channel - and idle if possible - to make this a success.
Non-coordinators are more than welcome; stop by if you want to chat
about the Wikipedia Library, have requests for databases, or have a
general quick queries. Please let me or Samwalton9 know if you have
any questions.
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Regards,
UY Scuti
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Hey All,
So Erica Litre, is hoping to host a bookswap at Wikimania. If you are
interested, or want to help with organizing, please weigh at
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre/Book_swapping . It
could be a fun way to exchange, and further the kind of activities and work
we do as the Wikipedia Library and librarians :)
Alex
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Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Hey GLAM-Wiki and Libraries ,
I hope you have seen the below conversation about structured data sets on
commons in open tabular data. As the world of openly published research
data, and data sets to inform graphing and other visualizations on
Wikimedia becomes more important. We can help centralize a lot of open
projects, especially as major research and public cultural heritage work,
like the digital humanities, is using data.
If you get in an opportunity, make sure to weigh in:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#Tabular_d…
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
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From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, May 2, 2016 at 4:08 PM
Subject: [Research-Internal] Research Group: Yuri on tabular data storage /
graph extension
To: Internal discussion of WMF Research Team <
research-internal(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Yuri Astrakhan <
yastrakhan(a)wikimedia.org>, Internal team communication for the Analytics
team <analytics-internal(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hey all,
I had a chat this morning with Yuri about his work on the Graph extension
and the underlying proposal to build tabular data storage on Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#Tabular_d…>.
I am very excited about this proposal (you may remember my rant
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/DataNamespace> on almost the exact same
idea).
Anyway, I invited Yuri to attend our RG
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WMF_Research_Group> meeting this Thursday
at 9:30 PT to give us an overview of the project and see how we could
benefit from / contribute to it. Also copying analytics-internal, who have
been working with Yuri.
Dario
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Edward Galvez
Survey Specialist
Learning & Evaluation
Wikimedia Foundation
Yep, that was a result of the conversation you started :)
Cheers,
Alex
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk>
wrote:
> On 17 March 2016 at 20:43, Jake Orlowitz <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Alexander Street (Educational videos and documentaries including PBS &
> BBC)
> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Alexander_Street>
>
> Did this come about as a result of my conversation with them in Melbourne?
>
> I ask because we're logging outcomes; but if so I'm very happy!
>
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> Andy Mabbett
> @pigsonthewing
> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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Hello all,
I'm excited to share with you some recent updates from our global branches.
Ukrainian RX and OA pages have been deployed in the last couple weeks: https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Вікіпедія:Бібліотека Вікіпедії/ВД and https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Вікіпедія:Запити_на_джерелаItalian Library coverage http://aibnotizie.aib.it/storti-1lib1ref-wikimedia/Persian had successful conversations with multiple sources, including NoormagsMiramar ship database donation was secured by Dutch User:StunteltjeCatalan Wikipedia Library was really excited about their participation in #1lib1ref, garnishing at least 350 edits, including contributions from: New accounts created during the campaign (15-20%)Old accounts reactivated (15-20%)Active users leading other librarians (30%)Very active users improving several articles (30%)
We'd love to hear of any updates we might have missed. What's happening in your branch?
Cheers,
Nikki